But Escape from Monkey Island’s 25th anniversary isn’t until next year, you cry, and right you are. What needs to be taken into consideration is Mojo’s track record with anniversaries, which is... less than stellar. In that sense, it only makes sense to start a year earlier, and when we finally hit the actual date, we may or may not match up. It’s all more or less logical.
So, to start it off, we have videos. Many, many videos.
For the rest, the game had great humor, excellent voice acting, new Monkey Island music played again by live musicians, and some quite good puzzles (e.g. the swamps of time). The 3D models were clumsy, but some backgrounds were quite good, and the graphics in the prerendered cut scenes were state of the aer back then.
It may not be the best Monkey Island game, but for me, at least it was a worthy one.